{"id":3652,"date":"2016-11-22T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2016-11-22T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:49:52","slug":"front-page-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3652\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page News"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not difficult to see why people’s interest in the mainstream media is collapsing. \u00a0Here’s the BBC<\/a> dealing with today’s major issues on its front page:<\/p>\n

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Melania Trump’s White House snub: Appalling or good parenting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The revelation that Melania and Barron Trump would not be joining Donald in the White House in January has raised eyebrows in some quarters, and garnered praise in others.<\/p>\n

The president-elect has said Mrs Trump and Barron will move to Washington “very soon, after he’s finished with school”, but has not put an actual date on the move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A family choosing not\u00a0to move with the father’s new job because of schooling is a “snub” according to the BBC.<\/p>\n

William Seale, a White House Historical Association historian and author of The President’s House, said President Grover Cleveland’s wife, Frances Folsom Cleveland, only lived in the White House during social season.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The concern of children staying back to finish school – that’s more typical than not,” Mr Seale said.<\/p>\n

“It seems not very unusual to me that she would want the child to finish this year of school. I don’t find it very surprising.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The BBC had to consult an author and historian specialising in American Presidential families in order to learn that this is a non-story. \u00a0But first they took heed of, erm, a random Twitter user:<\/p>\n

“First Family resides in White House as a symbol of our country to us and and the world,” wrote one Twitter user, Pamela Benbow. “Melania Trump’s decision is appalling.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is what the BBC would call “balance”.<\/p>\n

[I]t is not out of character for Mrs Trump, who has repeatedly stressed that Barron, 10, is her focus – staying at home during the campaign to care for him in Trump Towers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a bitch, eh? \u00a0Get this on the front page, quick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not difficult to see why people’s interest in the mainstream media is collapsing. \u00a0Here’s the BBC dealing with today’s major issues on its front page: Melania Trump’s White House snub: Appalling or good parenting? The revelation that Melania and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}